Direction: Chris Menges
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Chris Menges. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
A World Apart
1988 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Chris Menges
Cast Barbara Hershey · Jodhi May · Jeroen Krabbé · Nadine Chalmers
Plot Apartheid threatens to tear her from her 13-year-old daughter when the first white woman - a journalist - is arrested and put in solitary in 1963 for defying the South...
6.4
193 votes
6.4
193 votes
Second Best
1993 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Chris Menges
Cast William Hurt · Chris Cleary Miles · John Hurt · Jane Horrocks
Plot Academy Award winner William Hurt stars in and Chris Menges ("A World Apart") directs this story of a lonely postmaster in a quiet village who sees life’s precious moments passing...
6.4
280 votes
6.4
280 votes
The Lost Son
1999 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Chris Menges
Cast Daniel Auteuil · Nastassja Kinski · Katrin Cartlidge · Marianne Denicourt
Plot Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an...
5.6
120 votes
5.6
120 votes
CrissCross
1992 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Chris Menges
Cast Goldie Hawn · David Arnott · Arliss Howard · James Gammon
Plot Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about...
4.7
122 votes
4.7
122 votes